Almost half the buildings, 42%, had vegetation sprouting from neglected gutters and stonework, the single most visible sign of the damage being caused.
On Tuesday, Ms. Radin's apartment was strewn with clothes, the walls filthy and lined with cracks, with some sort of vegetation sprouting from the ceiling.
To the side of the trail, a stone prayer shrine still stood, somewhat tilted from the riotous vegetation sprouting every which way.
Set in what looks to be a post-apocalyptic New York City, the gaming landscape, created with Crytek's own game development engine, Cryengine 3, is teeming with vast expanses of vegetation, sprouting between the cracks of unsettling urban ruins.
Vegetation has sprouted up in the gaps created by the felled trees, including orchids, pond weeds and purple moor grass, a "really good sign" of the habitat's health, Elliott says.
In some areas, Baal was worshipped as the god of fertility because rain revives the earth, causing vegetation to sprout and grow.
Its roof, topped with golden globes, sprouts vegetation including marijuana plants.
The vegetation had all sprouted since Katrina.
A new apartment building in Montpellier, in the south of France, is designed to sprout vegetation from its walls.
Even the rocks, tinted an aqueous green, sprout vegetation, to the obvious benefit of a well-fed rabbit seen peering from a crevice.
